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Friday, February 28, 2014

Hello and welcome to Week 9 of this year-long, weekly hand-lettering series!

A couple of notes about this week's piece:

The imagery is
inspired by a photo from deep space that you may have seen in the last
week or so. Scientists saw a black spot on a photo they had of space.
When they magnified it, they essentially found even DEEPER space filled
with millions upon millions of stars and galaxies - things they had no
idea existed before. This really expands one's idea of infinite space,
doesn't it? I hope the imagery here gives the feeling of looking at
bazillions of heavenly entities out there in our infinite space
universe.

And a little about Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20,
1996.) He was an American, 20th century cosmologist - that is, someone
who studies the cosmos. He wrote 20 books, (including "Contact," upon
which the movie was based,) published over 600 scientific papers and
popularized science through his many television appearances. He had his
own 1980's TV series called "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage," which still
holds the record for being the most widely watched series in the history
of American public television.

Carl Sagan was a pretty cool guy! And this quote by him, which was
based on his excitement and reverence for our incredible and infinite
PHYSICAL universe, can, like so many truisms, also be applied to
anything.

And that includes each of us and our lives.

This statement inspires me in so many ways:

1.
It is a call to remain aware that while focus is always good, it is
also important to acknowledge all the wonders that we may not even be
aware of yet. This is extremely helpful when facing a challenge. It can
help to relax us if a solution is not directly at hand; reminding us to
keep our mind in a receptive state, which allows for creative solutions
to arise.

2. This phrase is also a wonderful way to generate gratitude. It
implies how truly abundant our world is. So much so, that we can't even
really be aware of it all at once.

3. And one more way
this phrase inspires me: It can apply to discovery within one's own
SELF. Think about that. There are so many incredible things yet to
discover IN yourself and ABOUT yourself, such as: qualities that you may
have not given yourself credit for, areas you have yet to grow into,
strengths you did not realize you possessed, talents you haven't tried
out yet.

It's exciting! It is more evidence that you can achieve any dream you have, even if you don't know how yet. Please leave a comment below and tell us how you are inspired by this quote.

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All art on this blog is by moi unless otherwise noted and is copyright protected, baby.
After having worked as an Illustrator for WNBC-TV local news, as an Information Graphics Designer at the Associated Press and a variety of other design, illustration and production forays, I've wended my way back to creating the old fashioned way, with paper, paint and pencil. Sometimes textiles, too.